I wanted to start a thread to show you guys what I've accomplished in the last year or so of training and as something of a farewell. I've made a big change in my life and I'll be leaving in a few weeks to join the military and I'm not sure when I'll be training heavy again.

Do I want props? Maybe a little. More importantly I want to share how I've achieved what I think is a good level of ‚??general‚?? fitness; strong enough, fast enough with enough stamina. Like the proponents of a certain training system that I shall not name, I'm happily mediocre. Nothing is great but nothing is shit either.

I've gone from, at my heaviest, a sloppy 275 totaling 350-450-550 and barely able to locomote under my own power to a slightly less sloppy 250 pulling 600 in about a year. Now, another year later I'm sitting around 215-220 and my last ‚??heavy‚?? training week before I depart for training I squatted 425 x 2, benched 350x2 and pulled 525x3 and I have fat-man ab outlines. It's taken me a couple years but I've nearly met or exceeded my old bests while drastically improving my stamina and physique.

Currently (These are all within the last month or so) my gym lifts and stats are:

I work in a gym and have the luxury of basically training as much and as often as I want so I generally get in 10-14 sessions a week. A week of training looks like this:

M deadlift and heavy pullup plus accessory work
Tu military press and arms, usually dips supersetted with some kind of curls
W straight bar box squat and some kind of stupidly high rep safety bar work
Th no weight training
F bench, upper body accessory and rep pullups
Sa some kind of conditioning work, either strongman drills or sled work
Su ‚?? completely off, only stretching and foam rolling if I feel like I need it

I run every weekday morning and alternate between a ‚??fast‚?? run and a ‚??long‚?? run. I'm stuck using the treadmill because it's so cold and inhospitable and I hate it.

If I feel beat up from training, particularly after the runs, I will do some very light sled dragging for 10-15 minutes just for recovery. I run in the morning and do this 2-4 hours later so I can be as recovered as possible for lifting at night.

After training I also do extra work with the sled, time allowing. The other notable thing I do is three extra easy sets of pullups at work on days when I don't do pullups in my actual workout.